🕸️🏚️ Addams Family Gathering
Step into the creepy and kooky Addams Mansion! Let's share our successes, mysterious mishaps, and brainstorm how to enchant our team's next sprint. Beware of lurking problems—and embrace delightfully dreadful improvements!
Template Columns
🎩 Grand Successes in the Family Vault
Reveal the wins and strange delights that made our last sprint a positively peculiar success!
Base column: What Went Well🕷️ Creepy Crawly Challenges
Share eerie troubles and wicked woes that haunted our progress during the sprint.
Base column: What Went Wrong⚡ Future Frights & Fixes
Conjure up improvements or new experiments for a more ghoulishly great next sprint!
Base column: What We Want to ImproveAbout this template
A spooky-themed sprint retrospective that celebrates wins, surfaces challenges, and plans eerie improvements.
When to use this template
Use when you want to inject fun and creativity into a sprint review, especially after a high‑energy sprint or when morale needs a boost.
How to facilitate
Set the mood by sharing the Addams Family intro and displaying the three columns on the board.
Ask each participant to write a Grand Success on a sticky, focusing on quirky achievements, and place them in the Vault column.
Next, have everyone add Creepy Crawly Challenges, encouraging honest but respectful sharing of obstacles.
Group similar items, discuss root causes, then move to Future Frights & Fixes to brainstorm spooky‑themed experiments or actions.
Vote on the top three fixes, assign owners, and close with a fun team chant or meme to seal the sprint’s spirit.
Pro Tips
Use themed emojis or icons on each sticky to keep the atmosphere light and visual.
Limit each person to three items per column to keep discussion focused and timeboxed.
Allocate a quick “haunt‑check” at the end to confirm that each action item has a clear owner and deadline.
FAQ
What if the team feels the theme is too silly for a serious sprint?
Acknowledge the concern, remind that the theme is a framing device to boost engagement, and keep the focus on concrete outcomes; you can tone down the language while keeping the structure.
How do we handle dominant voices taking over the challenge column?
Use a timer for each person’s turn or ask participants to write first before speaking, ensuring equal input.
What if we run out of time with many items?
Prioritize by quick dot voting, then defer lower‑ranked items to a follow‑up backlog or a separate improvement session.
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At a glance
- Duration
45–60 min
- Team Size
4-12 people
- Columns
3 columns
- Base Format
What Went Well, What Went Wrong, What We Want to Improve
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